With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
Current “big data” and “API-ification” trends can trace their roots to a definition Kant first coined in the 18th century. In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant drew…
It’s been called the biggest educational revolution in centuries, an increasingly popular movement that could shape the future of higher learning around the globe. And it could also…
The head of Stanford University, an institution whose academics led the current revolution in online education, has questioned whether MOOCs are able to effectively teach large numbers of…
For the last decade we’ve watched an epic contest unfold between open source and proprietary technology, and 2014 is the year that this dynamic will radically transform, OpenSource.com…
A college degree matters, and there’s no good substitute for the broad education that a student receives on the way toward earning one. College creates an environment where…
Big data seems like a complex, complicated and potentially expensive investment that leaves many executives pondering whether they should jump aboard this latest and greatest analytics boom or…
It has been a year since I arrived at the American Council on Education (ACE) in Washington, D.C., a 22-year veteran of the University of California and most…
I walked into the evening cocktail hour at the recent American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting even more self-conscious than the job-hunting graduate students nervously prowling the…
Big data presents big opportunities, but newbies may need experienced professionals in order to avoid three common deployment mistakes, InformationWeek reports. Three of the most common problems in…
As business schools tiptoe into the world of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, Harvard has a plan to sidestep the isolation of online learning—a problem that keeps…
